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Hey guys, I have a question in regards to the 820 Defacto Partnership Visa. I was wondering if I can get some advice regarding the 47sp and 40sp forms as I am sitting here a bit confused, trying to figure everything out. My Australian partner is sponsoring me and we are doing an online application. Logging in my Immi account, I started an Application for Migration to Australia by a Partner which has 26 questions. Is that considered the 47sp for me? If so, does my Australian partner (the sponsor) also need to create an Immi account and start his own application for sponsoring me at the same time? If thats the case, how will they know the two applications from two different Immi accounts are related and what is a Transaction Reference Number (TRN) that they ask the sponsor for at the beginning of his application? If we do this online, do we also need to download and fill out separately the pdf 47sp and 40sp forms https://www.border.gov.au/Forms/Documents/47sp.pdf and attach them to our application when we provide all the other forms and supporting documents? Help is much appreciated in these stressful times. Thank you in advance.

Thanks so much for sharing that. They can get very strict sometimes. It just surprises me that his visa was refused when you had plenty of financial evidence and proof from your social context. The problem with my partner and I is that we only have two good common friends that we usually go out with on the weekends. Our weekends mostly consist of going out for breakfast/lunch and going to the movies sometimes either just the two of us our with our other two friends who are a couple as well. We are not crazy about concerts and stuff. We are flying to Bali together in August and that will be our first and only trip so far. Being on a Working Holiday Visa I am not able to find a very well paid job and trying to save for the parternship visa has sort of hindered us from having a proper social life. Also, most of our pictures are selfies of us, we have one picture with his mother for christmas (the three of us), and two pictures with other friends. We are both working hard during the week and we have very chilled/relaxed weekends. Do you think it would help if I just explain this on the statement I write, simply because I am a bit stressed about lacking social context proof.

Thanks for the advice. Of course pictures of sexual context would be taking it way too far. I was just speaking to someone however who had applied for a 820 visa with his partner and they had provided some personal messages that proved their sexual relationship. I have also been reading some people writing in forum threads stating that they did include some things of that nature. I personally think that would be taking it to far and if a couple has enough proof from the financial and social context i think thats unecessary.

Thanks a lot, I appreciate your advice I wasn't sure about private messages either, I wasn't sure whether the COs would want to go that far into one's privatcy. I have spoken to a few people however who have applied for the 820 partnership visa and have sent some of their private messages and so I have been torn, thinking that either its going too far or its making your case stronger. The aspects of the relationship in the household part are not included in the social context, but rather in the "nature of household" part. Thanks again for your advice here. As you may already know this whole preparation thing does get very stressful and different people have included/not included different things so its good to get advice. Thanks again.

Thanks a lot. Yep I have checked out some of the threads here but most of them were covering things which I am already aware of and for that reason I thought I might receive some additional advice from this helpful community here. Correct, I am applying in 3-4 months and for that reason I need to urgently start collecting the right proof for the social context of relationship as 3-4 months can go by so fast and proof for visas as such needs some time to be collected Thanks again for your time.

Hello everyone, I need some urgent advice about the onshore De Facto Partnership Visa. I am a Canadian citizen and I moved to Australia through a WHV which I purposely received to be with my current partner whom I met overseas. We didn't want a long distance relationship so he proposed that I move here and live with him. From day one he picked me up the airport and I started living at his house. For the first period I lived with him from December 2014 to July 2015. During that time we didn't have any solid proof of living together, except letters sent to both of us at the same address. My name was not on the house lease or utility bills but I had transferred money to his bank account every month for rent/bills etc and I was the one to usually do grocery shopping. I did my regional work July-October 2015 and moved back with him in mid October after I was granted a 2nd WHV, and have lived with him ever since. I have lived with him in two different houses, the first one December 2014-April 2016 (only his name was on this lease),and the second one April 2016-present (both of our names are on this one year lease). We plan to apply for the De Facto Visa in November 2016, right before my 2nd WHV expires in December. I am a bit worried whether the proof we have collected so far will make for a solid case. These are main documents we have so far: -A Certificate of registered Relationship from the Victorian Government -A joint bank account from June 2015 (so it will be over a year by the time we apply) -Eletricity/Gas bills from November 2015 (it will be a year by the time we apply) -A letter from the house rental agency stating that I have lived in the first house with my partner from December 2014-April 2016, also stating that we have applied for my name to be added to the lease but the owner has refused and has just let me live there without wanting to renew the contract -Joint (one year) lease on current rented property -Joint car insurance since June 2016 -Internet bills under both names since June 2016 -Flight tickets to Bali with both our names and hotel bookings -Pictures, gifts, individual bank statements that show our transactions between each other -Personal messages history and other details to prove the social context of our relationship. Based on this information, do you think the proof we have so far makes for a good case? I am starting to get really stressed out as I feel like we might be lacking a bit of proof on the social context. I need some urgent advice in regards to any other proof that we may add/collect for our case before we apply. Thank you in advance.